UID:
almahu_9949384816302882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 206 pages)
ISBN:
9781317662228
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1317662229
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9781315767031
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1315767031
Series Statement:
American social and political movements of the 20th century
Content:
Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America's prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents, Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the struggles for justice still echoing in the present day.
Note:
Introduction -- Roots: challenging prison slavery and political repression, 1865-1940 -- Rights: fighting prison Jim Crow, 1940-1968 -- Revolution: the prison rebellion years, 1968-1972 -- Radicalism: unions, feminism, and the crisis of prison managerialism, 1973-1980 -- Retrenchment: mass incarceration and the remaking of the prison movement, 1980-1998 -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Berger, Dan, 1981- Rethinking the American prison movement. New York : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781138786844
Language:
English
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